Physics – Condensed Matter – Statistical Mechanics
Scientific paper
2009-06-25
J. Stat. Mech., P09004 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Statistical Mechanics
25 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
10.1088/1742-5468/2009/09/P09004
We introduce an alternative definition of the relative height h^\kappa(x) of a one-dimensional fluctuating interface indexed by a continuously varying real paramater 0 \leq \kappa \leq 1. It interpolates between the height relative to the initial value (i.e. in x=0) when \kappa = 0 and the height relative to the spatially averaged height for \kappa = 1. We compute exactly the distribution P^\kappa(h_m,L) of the maximum h_m of these relative heights for systems of finite size L and periodic boundary conditions. One finds that it takes the scaling form P^\kappa(h_m,L) = L^{-1/2} f^\kappa (h_m L^{-1/2}) where the scaling function f^\kappa(x) interpolates between the Rayleigh distribution for \kappa=0 and the Airy distribution for \kappa=1, the latter being the probability distribution of the area under a Brownian excursion over the unit interval. For arbitrary \kappa, one finds that it is related to, albeit different from, the distribution of the area restricted to the interval [0, \kappa] under a Brownian excursion over the unit interval.
Rambeau Joachim
Schehr Gregory
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